[openib-general] IP addressing on InfiniBand networks

[Roland Dreier]

    Roland> Just to be clear, the IBA spec is very clear that a GID
    Roland> _is_ an IPv6 address.

    Hal> albeit with additional properties/restrictions on IBA which
    Hal> do not apply to IPv6 (IBA 1,2 p, 143 lines 11-16).

Right: all GIDs are IPv6 addresses.  However, as you point out, the
converse is not true: all IPv6 addresses are not necessarily GIDs.

 - R.